Most Recent Extra Points

The Week in Quotes: December 3, 2010

compiled by Rory Hickey

LUTUI TOLD ANDERSON THAT QATAR IS HOSTING THE WORLD CUP IN 2022

Kent Somers: "I don't mean this to be sarcastic, or pointed, but [footage of you laughing] went out on Monday night television, and a lot of fans are talking about it right now as a big problem with this team. Can you put into context what was going on at that moment, and what caused you to ..."[Gets cut off]

Derek Anderson: "What Deuce and I talk about is nobody else's business."

Somers: "But why was something funny when you're down 18 points in the fourth quarter?"

Anderson: "It wasn't funny -- I wasn't laughing about anything."

Somers: "But the cameras showed you laughing ..."[Gets cut off]

Anderson: "OK, that's fine. That's fine, that's fine, that's fine. That's fine. I'm not laughing about it. You think this is funny? I take this [bleep] serious! Real serious! I put my heart and soul into this [bleep] every single week!"

Somers: "All I'm saying is that the cameras showed you ..."[Gets cut off again]

Anderson: "I'm just telling you right now what I do every single week! Every single week! I put my freakin' heart and soul into this, I study my ass off! I don't go out there and laugh! It's not funny! Nothing's funny to me! I don't want to go out there and get embarrassed on Monday Night Football in front of everybody!"

Somers: "But that's why I'm asking you ..."

Anderson: "I'm telling you right now! We were talking! Deuce and I were talking!"

Somers: "What was the context of the ..."

Anderson: "I'm done."

-- Exchange between Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson and Arizona Republic reporter Kent Somers after the Cardinals 27-6 loss to the 49ers. During the game, cameras showed Anderson briefly smiling on the sideline with teammate Deuce Lutui when the Cardinals were down by 18 points (NFL.com)

WOW THIS GUY IS NOT HAPPY WITH GRUDEN

"Blame for this non-issue being an issue starts with the Monday Night Football production team. You see that you have caught the quarterback in a candid moment. Exercise some restraint here. Maybe they saw someone trip and fall. That's always funny. Even in a blowout loss. Even at a funeral. But we're talking about Jon Gruden here, and to Gruden, diabolical football robot blowhard, losing a football game is worse than someone dying. This is not hyperbole. He's the kind of football coach you don't want to play for. Sure, he knows his [bleep]. But he's also a guy who'll throw a player under the bus on national television just for not being adequately sad-faced. You saw what he did to Derek Anderson. Imagine how he treated his players behind closed doors."

-- Former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson in an article on Deadspin defending former teammate Derek Anderson's brief smile on the sidelines, in which he disparaged ESPN analyst and former NFL coach Jon Gruden's criticism of Anderson (Deadspin)

TOO BAD GOD DIDN'T SEE THIS BECAUSE HE'S STILL ON FRIENDSTER

"I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!! AND THIS HOW YOU DO ME!!!!! YOU EXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS??? HOW???!!! ILL NEVER FORGET THIS!! EVER!!! THX THO ..."

AFTER SEEING MIAMI'S RECORD SINCE ENTERING THE ACC, TRUMP RECOMMENDED FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY AND REJOINING THE BIG EAST

"Donna -- You made a big mistake when you did not take my advice and hire Mike Leach of Texas Tech -- look what happened to them since he left ... Hire Coach Leach and you will be #1 -- And you can now get him for the right price. Best wishes, Donald."

I SCORED THE ROUND 10-8 TO JOHNSON FOR HIS EFFECTIVE AGGRESSION AND FACEMASK GENERALSHIP

"Don't get frustrated."

-- Texans receiver Andre Johnson to Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan during Sunday's Texans-Titans game, just prior to Johnson getting frustrated and landing some blows on Finnegan during a skirmish which resulted in both players' ejections (NFL.com)

"It's starting to look like it's OK to cheat, it's OK to fight, but if you hit somebody too hard, we're going to fine you a whole bunch. Maybe it's because I play for the Steelers, who knows?"

-- Steelers linebacker James Harrison expressing his continuing frustration with the NFL's fining policy after the Finnegan-Johnson clash led to each being fined just $25,000. Harrison has been fined a total of $125,000 for four illegal hits this season (ESPN)

THEY SAY DEPTH PERCEPTION IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO GO

"Did I expect to run for the first down? I hadn't expected to run for a first down in quite a while. ... It was 10 yards, really? It felt like 50."

-- Vikings quarterback Brett Favre after his team's 17-13 win over the Redskins. His 10-yard scramble on third-and-8 late in the fourth quarter helped seal the victory (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

"Do I still hate them? Well, I promised Coach Belichick that I wouldn't say anything derogatory, so, I have no comment."

-- Patriots quarterback Tom Brady issuing a fierce no comment when asked if he still hates the Jets, which he said before the season (The Star-Ledger)

COME ON PEYTON, YOU'RE CERTAINLY THE BEST WHITE RUNNING BACK SINCE ... WELL YEAH

"That's just absurd. Those guys are legends and I'm nobody. So there's really no need to talk about that anymore."

-- Browns running back Peyton Hillis when told that he's joined Hall of Famers Jim Brown and Leroy Kelly as the only backs in team history to rush for more than 11 touchdowns in a season (Cleveland Plain-Dealer)

AQIB HASN'T BEEN THIS MAD ABOUT JUDGMENT CALLS SINCE BRISTOL PALIN ADVANCED SO FAR IN DANCING WITH THE STARS

Talib: "You made a p------ call."

Official:"You played like a p------."

Talib: "I'll [hit] you in your [expletive] [expletive] mouth!"

-- Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib using an expletive to describe a pass-interference call, to which the unidentified member of referee Carl Cheffers' crew responded. Talib did not seem to appreciate this (Tampa Bay Online, Sporting News)

Happy Hanukkah to all FO readers! For those who don't know the origins, Hanukkah is a holiday commemorating the miracle of Jimmy Johnson's hair containing enough gel to adequately style the hair of eight men. Send a quote to quotes-at-footballoutsiders.com

Yeah the Tampa Bay Online had that many dashes after the P but the Sporting News link says Talib "used a crude anatomical term to critique the call" so I think we can assume the obvious word is the one that was used.

I'm pretty sure Andre Waters was cited not as a dirty player, but rather as a player whose head injuries led to a premature death. Concussions were believed to be a cause for his suicide.

And while I do agree that the punishments for Finnegan and Johnson were laughably light, Harrison's not helping his "I need to be a tough guy" case by whining every chance he gets. The vast majority of players simply sucked it up and realized they need to be more careful when tackling.

I like the Stevie Johnson quote because it reminds me of a joke by a comic I can't remember making fun of the fact that athletes only mention God after wins: "We were doing great until Jesus made me fumble."

That particular quote was Stilson -- I googled it. Figures because that name is totally unfamiliar to me. If it was one of those other guys (especially Carlin) I would've remembered it. Carlin had a similar bit, which the Stilson guy probably ripped off.

Several well-known comedians, including Carlin and Stilson, have worked that premise. When the kernel of a bit is topical and "public domain," the definitive take is usually the best material, not the first. Many comedians worked on Hot Pockets before Gaffigan's excellent chunk drove everyone off of it.

I thought the Derek Anderson interview was awesome, but did anyone else think the question was stupid? It was barely a laugh, if even a laugh. If it was a laugh, it would have been one of those self-deprecating laughs. What do you want the guy to do... stare glumly at the field? Yell at people?

Fact is that sideline cameras are basically non-sexual voyeurism (unless it's Tom Brady, it seems like). And out of context you can misunderstand a lot of things, especially if you only get like a two second camera shot.

What would happen if two-second snippets of our lives were played on national TV? Hate to think of it.

The question was worse than stupid, it was based on a false premise. Derek Anderson was not laughing, and even after he insisted that he had not been laughing, the jackass reporter kept insisting that the videotape showed something that it didn't show.
And yes, Jon Gruden is a douche, too. Apparently people are only allowed to respond to terrible circumstances in a way that Gruden dictates to be appropriate. I would hazard a guess that he found it inappropriate that Joe Montana spotted John Candy during the Super Bowl.
But since he took Tony Dungy's team to the Super Bowl and beat the worst-coached team in Super Bowl history*, he's a coaching genius. Blecch.

What I remember about that game was Gannon throwing 5 picks (against the 10 he threw in starting all 16 regular season games). While you don't have to give credit to Tampa's defense for those picks, it seems perverse to lay them at the doorstep of the head coach. What I know about Callahan since that game is 1) he was fired by Al Davis, 2) he was fired by a big-time NCAA football program, and 3) he's been a great offensive line/assistant head coach for the Jets. That's three things in his favor.

Alot of Gruden's former players hate his guts. I remember watching an interview on NFL network with Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp and a couple other Buc players talking about how everyone called Gruden two-faced because he would tell every player "he loved them," but would talk shit behind their back, even to other players. Even Sapp was like, I like Gruden, but that's just how he is, everyone knows it.

Not someone I would want coaching my team, even though he's a media darling for all of the upcoming coaching vacancies.